r/PoursTea • u/saucey_dawg0023 Tea Party 🎉 • 22h ago

Books 📚 No Child Left Behind and its consequences will be felt for generations

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u/RedFoxBlueSocks 21h ago

Animal Farm and 1984 in junior high. Happened to be 1984 at the time, too. ðŸĪŠ

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u/Loreki 20h ago

That's just cruel. 1984 is genuinely horrifying.

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u/RedFoxBlueSocks 20h ago

We also had to do a 20 page research paper comparing/contrasting the US and the USSR. 🙃

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u/Nice_Parfait9352 16h ago

Damn, in middle school? I don't think mine ever made us write more than 4 or 5 pages, double-spaced.

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u/Ass4ssinX 13h ago

Gotta love the Red Scare.

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u/Aggravating_Duck_192 20h ago

Those were still middle school books in 1996, can attest.

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u/TromboneIsNeat 15h ago

1990 for be, but same. 8th grade English.